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Lijia Yu
Currently searching for a PhD student position
Please note that this is a real resume, and I’m really looking for a PhD student position at the moment. I made this resume because Yihui asked me if I’d like to test the pagedown package with my resume. If you are interested in my background and skills, please feel free to contact me.
Education
M.S., Bioinformatics
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
2014
- Thesis: A multi-omics study for intra-individual divergence of the distributions between mRNA isoforms in mammals
B.S., Information and Computing Sciences
Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Beijing, China
2010
- Thesis: Dyadic wavelet and its application in edge detection
Research Experience
Visiting Scientist
University of Alabama at Birmingham
AL, USA
2018 - 2016
- Investigated the role of mitochondria in development of cancer.
- Investigated the evolution of genome architecture and its role in important evolutionary events.
- Detected thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura related mutations in mutiple patients<U+0092> blood genome.
Bioinformatican
My Health Gene Technology Co., Ltd.
Beijing, China
2016 - 2015
- Investigated how cancer cells spread to other parts of the body at the single cell level.
Graduate Research Assistant
Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
2014 - 2011
- Performed computational biology research towards understanding regulation of alternative splicing in human and mouse transcriptome.
- Found EGFR pathway related mutations, aimed to understand the impacts of cancer mutations on EGFR signaling pathway.
Professional Experience
Bioinformatican
My Health Gene Technology Co., Ltd.
Beijing, China
2016 - 2015
- Analyzed whole-exome sequencing data.
- Wrote analysis pipelines of ChIP-seq, single cell DNA-seq and single cell RNA-seq.
- Studied tumor metastasis and wrote research reports.
- Also did case studies to identify the genetic defect causing rare disease.
Data Scientist, intern
SupStat Inc.
Beijing, China
2014
- Taught R language to beginners.
- Wrote Shiny app demos.
- Converted statistical tutorials from SPSS to R language.
Teaching Experience
Introduction to R Language for Beginners.
Instructor of R and Data Mining Training Courses at SupStat Inc.
Beijing, China
2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
Teaching assistant of GBS CB2-201 courses at UAB
AL, USA
2016 - 2017
Selected Publications and Posters
Genetic and epigenetic signals are found predictive to the distribution of intra-individual divergence of alternative splicing.
Poster for 2013 International Conference of Genomics
Qingdao, China
2014
Yu L, Chen B, Zhang Z.
ESCRT-0 complex modulates Rbf mutant cell survival by regulating Rhomboid endosomal trafficking and EGFR signaling.
J Cell Sci. 2016 May 15;129(10):2075-84.
N/A
2016
Sheng Z, Yu L, Zhang T, Pei X, Li X, Zhang Z and Du W.